On Sep 23, 2005, at 3:47 AM, Leopold Toetsch wrote:
On Sep 23, 2005, at 7:51, Ross McFarland wrote:
i was planning on playing around with gtk+ bindings and parrot and
went about looking around for the work that had already been done and
didn't turn anything up. if anyone knows where i can find it or who i
should talk to i would appreciate that info as well.
Google for "NCI gtk". There is also a weekly summary entry but the
xrl.us shortcut seems to have expired.
I was wondering about that. I Googled for "tinyurl considered harmful"
and was surprised to find only one message, discussing the phishing
risks. I found no mention of the risk of outsourcing a bottleneck to a
third party who has zero obligation or direct interest to continue
providing the service.
From <http://metamark.net/about#expire>:
Do Metamark links expire?
The Metamark urls expire after five years or two years after the last
usage - whichever comes later. However, if a link is never used, it
will expire after two years. This should mean that as long as a link
is on a public page, some search engine will visit it and keep it
alive.
Of course, this is subject to change and is no promise but just my
intentions as of this writing. If you want guarantees you can make
your own service.
To be quite frank, I'm astonished the practice exists here in the first
place. In my opinion it goes directly against the spirit of the Web
envisioned by Tim Berners-Lee. A better practice would be to post long
URL's within angled brackets. And there's no reason you can't do both,
either.
Josh
